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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HAMON MORRISON, OF IWIORANTOWN, KANSAS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO GREENLEAF W. CAMPBELL AND JOHN H. VAUGHN, OF SAME PLACE.

CORN-HARVESTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 482,186, dated September 6, 1892.

Application filed January 2, 1892. Serial No. 416,873. (No model.)

To a/ZZ whom, zit may concern: frame is a shaft 13, which carries a reel 19,

Be itknown that I, HAMON MOREISON,a citiconsisting of a series of radial arms 20, arzen of the United States, and a resident of Moranged in pairs and the outer ends of each pair rantown, in the county of Allen and State of connected by means of angle-bars 2l, each 55 5 Kansas, have invented certain new and useful comprising a horizontal portion with inclined Improvements in Corn-Harvesters; and I do ends, which are secured to said radial arms. hereby declare that the following is a full, Secured to this shaft 18 is a sprocket-wheel clear, and exact description of the invention, 22, connected by means of sprocket-chain 23 which will enable others skilled in the art to With a similar wheel 24, secured to the inner 6o 1o which it appertains to make and use the same, end of the axle. The object of the reel 19 is reference being had to the accompanying to catch the stalks as they are severed by the drawings, which form a part of this specificacutters and lay them in a curved receiver 25, tion. located at one side of the machine. At the My invention relates to improvements in inner side of this receiver 25 is located an in- 6 5 corn-harvesters, the obj ect being to provide a clined elevator consisting of the side bars 26, machine of this character in which the standconnected together by means of vcross-bars 27. ing corn is cut bya reciprocating cutter, then The lower ends of the side bars 26, which terlaid by means of a rotating reel in a curved niinatej ust belowthe receiver,are formed with receiver, from which it is carried and deposslots 29, which embrace the shaft 30, journaled 7o 2o ited by means of an elevator upon a rotatain the side bars 4 of the machine, Whichis proble binder-table provided with shocking and vided with a series of sprocket-Wheels 31, concompressing devices, the shocks bound with nected by means of sprocket-chains 32 with Wire or cord, and finally set in proper position similar sprocket-wheels 33, secured to a shaft from the machine. 34, journaled in slots 34n in the upper ends of 75 The invention consists in the novel conthe bars 26. These sprocket-chains are prostruction and combination of devices, hereinvided with projecting fingers, which catch the after fully described and claimed. stalks in the receiver as said belts are actu- In the accompanying drawings, Figure lis ated and carry the saine to the binder-table, a perspective view of a machine constructed the inner part of said receiver being formed 8o 3o in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is with slots for the passage of said fingers.

a plan view of the same. Fig. 3 is a section Upon the rear end of shaft 34 is provided a on the line x, Fig. 2. Fig.4 is a section on sprocketwheel 36, connected by means of the line y y, Fig. 2. Y sprocket-chains 37 with sprocket 38 on shaft In the said drawings the reference-numeral 39, and sprocket 39 on a shaft 40, journaled 8 5 1 designates the axle or driving-shaft, and 2 in the rear side bar of the machine frame. and 3 the supporting and driving wheels. The inner end of shaft 40 is provided with a Upon this axle is mounted the frame consistbeveled pinion 4l, which meshes with the cogs ing of the side pieces or bars 4 and bars 5 7 on the driving-wheel 4. The rear side bar and cross-bars 6. The driving-wheel 3 is lois also provided With an inclined arm 42, hav- 9o 4o cated about the center of the frame and is ing slotted upper end 53, which engages with provided or formed on one side with beveled shaft 34. cogs '7, which mesh with a beveled pinion S, The elevator 1s provided with a bottom 43, mounted on a shaft 9, journaled in the front and the side bars thereof, at or near the cenbar of the frame. This shaft at its outer end ter, are provided with outward-projectingpins 9 5 is provided with a crank 10, which is pivoted or projections 44, which engage in slots 45 in to a pitman 12, connected with a sickle or the upper ends of the standards 46, secured cutter-bar 13, having the cutters 14. This to the side bars 4of the frame, and form supcutter-bar passes through and works in a slot ports for the elevator. The lower end of the 15 in a stationary plate 16, which serves to elevator may be. connected with the main roo 5o guide the corn to the sickle or cutter-bar. frame in any ordinary or usual manner.

Journaled in uprights 17, secured to the At the end of the machine opposite the receiver islocated a circular or annular rotatable binder-table 47, having a central aperture, through which passes a pivot-pin 48, secured to one of the cross-bars 6.V The frame is also provided with a segmental track 49,V

upon which run wheels 50, journaled in the under side of the table. This table is made in two parts hinged together, the smaller part 47a having secured to it on its upper side a lever 5l, which extends over to near the opposite edge of the table, where it is provided with a pivoted catch 52, by turning which in one direction or the other `the said lever is locked or released, said catch acting in a manner similar to an ordinary turn-button. By means of the lever the portion 47 can belowered so as todrop a shock or bundle, as will hereinafter more fully appear. The upper side of the table 47 is provided with a seriesof oppositely arranged curved upwardlyprojecting arms or jaws 53 and 53a,which receive the stalks as they come from the elevator. The arms 53 are provided with a rotatable shaft 54, having a crank 55 at one end.

The numeral 55 denotes a spool attached to the table 47, carrying the binding wire or cord.

Thenumeral designates a staple, through which passes a compressor rope or cord 57,

secured at one end to the shaft 54 and the other end adapted to be tied orI otherwise secured to one ot' the arms 53.

The numeral 58 denotes a vertical rod connected at its lower end with the tongue and at its upper end connected with a horizontal rod 59, passing through an aperture in an upright 60, and at its rear end connected with a vertical rod 6l, secured to the bar 6, thus forming a support for the tongue.

The operation is as follows: The compressorcord is laid upon the table, passing through the staple underneath the lever 5l, and a sufficient. quantity of wire or cord from the spool is laid on the table above said lever, as seen in Fig. 1, when the machine is ready for work.. As the machine is pulled across the field the cutters 14 and plate 16 will sever or cut the stalks, which will be laid in the receiver' by means of the rotating reel. The iingers on the sprocket-chains 32 will now seize the stalks and carry them to the top of the elevator, from which they will fall and be deposited between the curved arms 53 and 53a. When a sufficient number of stalks has been accumulated between said jaws to form a shock or bundle of suitable size, the machine is stopped, the

table is turned a quarter-revolution, and the compressor cord or rope is carried up and around the said stalks and connected with one of the arms 53 by tying or otherwise. The object in turning the table a quarter-revolution is to bring the arm 53 from underneath the conveyer to allow the operator to more readily carry the compressor-cord around the bundle or gavel and secure the same to the arm 53. The shaft 54 is then turned or rotated by means of the crank 55, tightly compressing the shock or bundle. The binding wire or cord is then cut and brought around the bundle and its ends secured in any suitable manner, when the compressor-cord is released. The tableis then returned to normal position and the dropper 47a'depressedby means of lever 51, which will allow the bound bundle or shock to set in proper position. Thedropperis then raised and the leversecured by means of catch 52,when the machine is again ready to proceed with its work.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- 1. In a corn-harvesting machine, the combination, with the elevator, of the bindertable located underneath the upper end thereof, the upwardly-extendingcurved arms or jaws secured to said table, the shaft journaled in said jaws, and a compressor cordor rope secured to said shaft, substantially as described.

2. In a corn-harvesting machine, the combination, with the elevator, of the bindertable made in two parts hinged together, the lever secured to one of said parts, the upwardly-extending curved arms or jaws, the shaft journaled therein, and a compressor cord or rope secured to said shaft, substantially as described.

3. In a corn-harvesting machine, the combination, with the elevator, of the rotatable binder-table made in two parts hinged together, the lever secured to one of said parts, the upwardly-extending curved arms or jaws, the shaft journaled` therein, the staple secured to the said table, and the compressor cord or rope, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereunto axed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HAMON MORRISON. Witnesses:

G. W. CAMPBELL, J. H. VAUGHN.

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